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How to prevent fleas
How to prevent fleas
Flea infestation is a fairly common problem for pet owners, and as a pet owner, you should be very wary of these insects because besides making your pets miserable, they can cause real harm. Fleas are really nothing but bad news, they can cause a number of diseases and make your pets susceptible to certain other illnesses. These insects simply should not be in your home and you should never give them the chance. Preventing fleas isn’t something you do once, it’s an ongoing and continuous process, and the steps below will help you keep these tiny terrorists away from your home and property.
Keep your property neat
The first step to ensuring fleas don’t make their home with you is making sure your property is not conducive for them. And that will mean keeping your lawn properly trimmed at all times, that is if you have one.
Also make sure there are no shrubs and trees growing widely and providing lots of shade. If you do have shrubs, flowers, and trees, ensure to keep them well-trimmed so your lawn can receive lots of sunshine whenever the sun is up. Enough sunlight will ensure flea eggs and larvae don’t thrive on your property. Also make sure that stray pets and wild animals like raccoons, skunks, and opossums are not attracted to your home, keep trash well covered, remove shade, clean up the garages, and make nothing attract these critters as they may bring fleas with them.
Treat your yard occasionally
Keeping your yard neat can only do so much, you will also need to make it very uncomfortable for these nuisance parasites. You can find an effective flea spray from your local hardware store and occasionally spray the insecticide around your lawn and everywhere around your property. Spray your shrubs, flowers, and trees, and all around them to make sure that any one of these insects hiding there dies. Occasionally doing this will repel fleas and discourage any future infestation.
Vacuum your home regularly
Regular vacuuming goes a long way in getting rid of tiny flea eggs, larvae, and cocoons. If you vacuum every day or every other day, you have a higher chance of cutting short an infestation before it happens or drastically reducing the spread. And when vacuuming, pay greater attention to carpeted floors, edges, upholstery, and areas where your pets love to hang out. These places are where an infestation is most likely to start. You can also spray your home with a flea fogger every once in a while, to prevent a infestation or kill off any flea that mistakenly gets into your home.
Give your pet regular flea prevention
You’ll never know when one of these tiny bloodsuckers will hop on your pet and hitch a ride to your home, and this is more likely to happen if you have long-haired pets. To ensure this doesn’t happen, provide your pet with regular flea and tick prevention. Speak to your vet about this and see what they recommend. Also, bathe your pet with anti-flea shampoo to prevent fleas from breeding in their fur.
Use diatomaceous earth
In addition to the insecticide and anti-flea spray, diatomaceous earth is an effective anti-flea agent and you can use it to discourage fleas from coming to your property. Purchase food- grade diatomaceous earth which is non-toxic and sprinkle this fine powder around your yard, paying great attention to areas where there are shrubs and trees. You can also sprinkle this powder in your home, on the carpets, crevices, upholstery, etc. every once in a while, to make your home completely unconducive for fleas.
Treat infestations completely
If you ever had an infestation, make sure you treat it completely. Treating a flea infestation is a long process that will take several weeks to months, because of the life cycle of these insects. The key to getting rid of them completely is to make sure you kill the adults and evict the eggs, larvae, and pupae, and naturally, this takes some time and the right amount of dedication.
Halfway measures do not work with fleas because if you leave as little as 2 or 3 eggs or larvae, they will eventually transform to adult fleas and start the cycle all over again. Female fleas are able to lay up to 50 eggs in a single day which is more than enough to start another infestation, which is something you don’t want. Therefore, an infestation has to be completely treated and the treatment/prevention process continued for as long as possible.
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